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Abstract
We discovered that gene clusters of 45S ribosomal RNA in Xenopus hybrid frogs are maternally imprinted, similar to X chromosome inactivation in marsupial females. Paternal expression was partly restored after chemical inhibition of histone deacetylation during larval stages. This provides a new spectacular example of epigenetic silencing and first evidence of genomic imprinting in amphibians.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24477594 DOI: 10.1007/s00427-014-0464-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Dev Genes Evol ISSN: 0949-944X Impact factor: 0.900